Suspected of killing “Manu” had no money to escape and hid in a shack

The suspect of killing a 19 -year -old at the Braga Academic Bar will have been hiding 6 days in a shack waiting for his family to send him money to get away from Portugal.

According to, Mateus Machado, the suspect of killing the young “Manu” in an academic bar in Braga, failed to escape Portugal due to lack of money.

The suspect will have been hidden for 6 days in a shack Abandoned near the house of his girlfriend’s parents in Sopegal, Castelo Branco, while expecting his family to send him money to escape Portugal. However, the escape was not realized because it was caught by Braga’s PJ.

The 27 -year -old Mateus Machado’s sweetening confirmed to Lusa that the suspect was in pre -trial detention after being present the first judicial interrogation at the Vila Nova de Famalicão Court.

“The defendant gave an explanation that He was not the author of the murder. He explained to the court that he was not the perpetrator of the murder. The court had divergent indications of the defendant’s version, which understood that they were enough to decree pre -trial detention. We will appeal to the Court of Appeal and to undermine these evidence that the Court presented, ”explained António Falé de Carvalho.

However, it was known that Mateus Machado, who is of Brazilian nationality, was about to be expelled from Portugal When the crime happened. AIMA refused its residence authorization request due to suspicions that it had been convicted abroad for a crime that is punished in Portugal with a penalty of one year or greater. The suspect confirmed, now knowing that Mateus Machado has been arrested more than two years in the United States for integrating a group of armed robbers.

In the early hours of Saturday, April 12, the student of the 12th year of D. Maria II Secondary School, in Braga, known as ‘Manu’, was Wholesale with a white weapon At the door of the University of Minho Academic Bar, eventually dying in the hospital. There is speculation that the young man was murdered for reporting a group of men who would be Drugging the drinks of girls At the bar, but the authorities have not yet confirmed this version.

“Of the uninterrupted steps in the meantime performed by the PJ, it was possible to identify, locate and stop the aggressor, who was already on the run, refugee in an isolated area of ​​the interior of the country and preparing to escape abroad,” police said.

This criminal investigation force explained that “for reasons not yet fully clarified, elements of Two distinct groups were expelled commercial establishment after a verbal discussion ”.

“Then, already outside the bar, they returned to get involved in confrontationthis time with physical aggressions, having the suspect, using a knife, struck the victim, a 19-year-old, in the chest zone and a right upper member, an injury that turned out to be fatal, despite the emergency help, ”he said in the statement.

The crime was registered at 5:30 am, following a feud that, according to PSP source, involved about 20 people.

The bar building is owned by the University of Minho and was given to the Academic Association. However, the association concessed exploration to a businessman. After the crime, two fire spots In the building, which partially destroyed the bar.